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Philadelphia, sixth Month.'11, 1898. For Friends' intelligencer. FUGITIVE SLAVES, [p.413].
My experience with fugitive slaves, which was considerable, evidenced to me that the great majority of them, when arriving worth, first sought people of their own color, as they were afraid of the whites.
A very remarkable case i will relate, m the back part of my place in 1857, In a tenement house of David Johnson's family, a New Jersey slave resided. One evening, he and a colored man from ^ccomac county, Virginia, called to see me. xhe person with him was one of the most imposing men in ap¬ pearance i ever met,- six feet four inches in height, and other¬ wise wonderfully developed. The account he gave of himself was a remarkable disclosure of the working of the "domestic Institution," as our southern friends loved to call In formerly. J-t seems that he was the son of his master, a very large slave¬ holder, and that by the advice of his half-sisters he came North as a runaway. He was yacht-master, and his business was largely to look after the comfort and safety of the young ladles and their visitors in their cruisings on Chesapeake ^ay. The reason that his half-sisters advised his going to Canada was that their brother was expected home from a long stay in Europe, and they feared a collision between them- he entertained for his colored half-brother George an intense dislike, so George left in the night in a boat crossing over to Maryland and Delaware, and from thence hiding in the daytime in thickets, woods, and corn-

4 C^fe^vO/vuX \*j*U^^U~2jZ^ t^i^AMA
.ummnrirni i^,-TT«i nmtmaju**' """ """ ' '"'''"" ' III ~y ■ .iiil^li, jj.,, ■— llM"^**-—-- ....-..-
Philadelphia, sixth Month.'11, 1898. For Friends' intelligencer. FUGITIVE SLAVES, [p.413].
My experience with fugitive slaves, which was considerable, evidenced to me that the great majority of them, when arriving worth, first sought people of their own color, as they were afraid of the whites.
A very remarkable case i will relate, m the back part of my place in 1857, In a tenement house of David Johnson's family, a New Jersey slave resided. One evening, he and a colored man from ^ccomac county, Virginia, called to see me. xhe person with him was one of the most imposing men in ap¬ pearance i ever met,- six feet four inches in height, and other¬ wise wonderfully developed. The account he gave of himself was a remarkable disclosure of the working of the "domestic Institution," as our southern friends loved to call In formerly. J-t seems that he was the son of his master, a very large slave¬ holder, and that by the advice of his half-sisters he came North as a runaway. He was yacht-master, and his business was largely to look after the comfort and safety of the young ladles and their visitors in their cruisings on Chesapeake ^ay. The reason that his half-sisters advised his going to Canada was that their brother was expected home from a long stay in Europe, and they feared a collision between them- he entertained for his colored half-brother George an intense dislike, so George left in the night in a boat crossing over to Maryland and Delaware, and from thence hiding in the daytime in thickets, woods, and corn-